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Noether versus Killing symmetry of conformally flat Friedmann metric

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Abstract

In a recent study Noether symmetries of some static spacetime metrics in comparison with Killing vectors of corresponding spacetimes were studied. It was shown that Noether symmetries provide additional conservation laws that are not given by Killing vectors. In an attempt to understand how Noether symmetries compare with conformal Killing vectors, we find the Noether symmetries of the flat Friedmann cosmological model. We show that the conformally transformed flat Friedman model admits additional conservation laws not given by the Killing or conformal Killing vectors. Inter alia, these additional conserved quantities provide a mechanism to twice reduce the geodesic equations via the associated Noether symmetries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2053-2059
Number of pages7
JournalGeneral Relativity and Gravitation
Volume39
Issue number12
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2007

Keywords

  • Conformal Killing vector
  • Killing vector
  • Noether symmetry

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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